Mike > USS - Unformatted Screen Services.
That's a new one! As it happens, I have just in the last few days in conjunction with sorting out another matter noticed that there is even a VTAM manual which gets USS wrong!!! In the z/OS Communications Server SNA Messages manual, we find the following: <quote> 17.0 Chapter 17. USS messages This chapter provides information on unformatted session services(USS) messages that are sent to the VTAM operator or a program operator, and USS messages that are sent to terminal users. For information on translating USS messages, see "User-selected message changes" in topic 1.7. </quote> Amazing! Returning to your imaginative interpretation, it is indeed true today that it is more than likely that Unformatted System Services commands are keyed at a display device and both the commands and any associated messages appear on a "screen". However, those of us with beards that have turned grey can still dimly recall the 3767 typewriter which also required the use of USS functions. Chris Mason On Sun, 1 May 2011 12:36:49 -0500, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >USS - Unformatted Screen Services. >-- >Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
